Dara Calleary (Mayo, Fianna Fail)
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Question 150: To ask the Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government the position regarding a sewerage scheme (details supplied) in County Mayo. [8890/12]

Phil Hogan (Carlow-Kilkenny, Fine Gael)
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My Department's Water Services Investment Programme 2010 – 2012, a copy of which is available in the Oireachtas Library, includes a contract for wastewater treatment plants and associated networks for the Belmullet, Foxford and Charlestown Sewerage Scheme to advance to construction during the period of the Programme at an estimated cost of €14.3 million.

I understand that Mayo County Council intends to advance the planning process for the Belmullet project in order to facilitate progress on the Council's applications to the Environmental Protection Agency for a discharge licence and to my Department for a foreshore licence in respect of the outfall for the wastewater treatment plant.

A decision on Mayo County Council's design brief for the appointment of consultants to advance the procurement of the three wastewater treatment plants and associated works under a single Design Build Operate (DBO) will be made by my Department as soon as possible. This decision will also assist the Council to determine the scale and scope of the works to be carried out on the collection systems at the three locations, and whether to incorporate those works into the DBO contract or to procure them under separate contracts.